What's happening around the farm.
Posted in General on Oct 11th, 2011
Think the farmers market season is over? Think again.The Plattsburgh Winter Farmers Market will open Thursday, October 13 at 3 p.m. in the City Recreation Gym on the Base Oval. It features locally grown vegetables including fresh salad greens, goat cheese, goat milk caramels, pastured pork, cheese from organic Jersey cows, free-range chicken and eggs, [...]
Whew. We’ve had worse thunderstorms than Irene. We made a lot of preparations, which paid off. We replaced the bottom boards on the hoophouse which were getting punky, so the sidewall tiedowns would be secure. I also fastened the ends of the sidewall plastic to the endwalls, and twisted the bottom of the sidewalls back [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on Aug 19th, 2011
Plant (and insect and disease) growth is very arithmetic. In the spring when days are lengthening and temperature increasing, things planted a month apart may mature within a week of each other. Conversely in the fall, with decreasing day light and temperature, things planted a week apart may mature a month apart. Late fall and [...]
Posted in General on Jul 20th, 2011
We will experiment with a Thursday farmstand, 10 til ??? Not the best weather to commit to being outside, but Thursday is the best day for us to do a farmstand since the CSA has been fulfilled. If you come and I’ve taken it down, come on up to the house. I really don’t know [...]
Posted in General on Jul 13th, 2011
Driving home from the Lake Placid Market this afternoon I followed gorgeous billowing white clouds. As I got closer to Peru I could see low grey to the northeast and figured we’d be in the rain shadow again. On Arthur Road approaching Route 22 I could see a clear line of rain less than a [...]
Posted in CSA, General, Vegetables on Jun 23rd, 2011
I’d rather have one day or night of good rain, totaling about an inch, and then clear days, but we’ll take some rain any way right now. One of the odd things about this summer is that as wet as it has been, as soon as it is not overly wet it is really really [...]
Posted in General on May 30th, 2011
Welcome to Rehoboth Homestead’s 2011 Farm Fresh Food Club CSA. Here is general logistical information: To keep arithmetic simple, and because most folks will be gone or have a conflict at least once a season, we made the CSA for twenty weeks. There are 21 Tuesdays and 22 Thursdays June through October, so we expect [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 29th, 2011
“Mudding in” is a term farmers use when they are transplanting seedlings into muddy soil. We’d rather have the soil in perfect condition to till up a soft, fluffy bed for new roots to grow into, but when we have to, we poke holes in wet soil and stick plants in. We’ve done a good [...]
For those who don’t know me, my eyeglasses are small, rimless, hard to find on a countertop when I take them off. When I lost them in the field yesterday, and looked last night, I didn’t have much hope of finding them. This morning I drove the golf cart down, parked it, looked off in [...]
Posted in General, Vegetables on May 10th, 2011
We quit early today because we were both exhausted, and tractor accidents happen when you are exhausted. Let’s catch you up. The older half of the hoophouse tomatoes were trellised Friday, a good wet weather job. Tore the rest of the old greens out and weeded. Saturday planted the younger hoophouse tomatoes, and since CSA [...]
